Cannes Entry ‘The Mom of All Lies,’ About Deception Inside Filmmaker’s Household, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
The trailer for Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir’s Cannes entry “The Mom of All Lies” debuts right here (under). The documentary hybrid, in regards to the lies that pervaded El Moudir’s childhood in Casablanca, has its premiere in Un Sure Regard on Could 24. World gross sales are being dealt with by Autlook Filmsales.
The movie begins with El Moudir desirous to know why she has just one {photograph} from her childhood, and why the woman within the image isn’t even her.
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To get to the reality, El Moudir and her father construct a miniature set that recreates their neighborhood, and convey the entire household to the soundstage the place it’s constructed.
She then begins to ask questions, unraveling the story, letting her relations discuss, asking probing questions. Slowly, she begins to interrogate the tales that her mom, father and grandmother have advised all her life about their dwelling and their nation, beginning to perceive the layers of deception and intentional forgetting which have formed her life.
Within the movie, she makes use of her personal voice – as a toddler and as an grownup – to guide the story. “My questions and my fantasized recollections — between fiction and actuality, between reality and lies — present how tough it’s to construct one’s identification when all of your recollections are unreliable,” El Moudir says.
“I’m not attempting to doc the true story of my household however to make a movie in regards to the multiplicity of factors of view and the plurality of interpretations that exist inside one family, not just for the sake of household historical past however for that of nationwide historical past as nicely.”
El Moudir is a Paris- and Rabat-based director, screenwriter and producer. She has directed brief documentaries for SNRT, Al Jazeera Documentary, BBC and Al Araby TV. She accomplished the mid-length movie “The Postcard” in 2020. “The Mom of All Lies” is her first characteristic movie.
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